LA 27E RÉGION @ SUPERPUBLIC

4, rue la Vacquerie
75011 Paris

Monday through Friday, 9:00am to 6:00pm
call us: +33 1 83 62 98 27

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La 27e Région is not a provider and has no customers; it is a project of general interest. Its role is to produce and pool knowledge, proposals and feedback to be widely shared simply for the common good. Our partners are local and regional authorities, public administrations and private stakeholders who provide funding to both benefit from and actively contribute to the common good.

Our projects are selected by the entire 27 Région team; all our programs (Territories en résidence and the Transfo) start with a series of visits and field interviews to ensure that everyone is prepared to comply with the program’s protocol. It sometimes happens that an element of the protocol cannot be met by a given stakeholder, in which case, either the operation is abandoned, reserved for the future, or other players are selected to pursue the operation.

La 27e Région is a small team that is not looking so much to grow as a structure, but rather to contribute to developing an ecosystem of players and a community of individuals, or even a specialized sector of activity. When we conduct a program, we call upon candidates so as to select professionals who will implement the program in the field as service providers. We try, as much as possible, to set up multidisciplinary teams, bringing together the capabilities of both seniors and juniors. In doing so, La 27e Région plays a mediating role designed to facilitate the work of the teams with local/regional authorities and all stakeholders.

Superpublic is the first open space dedicated to new forms of public innovation. Located at 4 rue Vacquerie in the 11th district of Paris, Superpublic is open from 9am to 6pm during weekdays and for exceptional closures. It is primarily addressed to civil servants, politicians, professionals, students and researchers. In addition to a program of events and meetings, Superpublic is a small co-working space that can accommodate both permanent and temporary residents (for hours, days, weeks or months). Requests for applications are regularly announced and a guide is available explaining the terms of use for the space.

The Transfo, Bourgogne Region

Bourgogne was the first region to embark on the Transfo adventure in 2011. After participating in a residency on the future of rural train stations, the region decided to pursue work on the subject of rural life. The Transfo was called in to work on the “Villages of the future” project in direct connection with the department of regional development. The Transfo team worked with civil servants on 5 topics (dream villages, retirement villages, culture-oriented villages, connected villages and wet villages); this entailed making site inspections, setting up workshops and engaging in prototyping and script writing. The results were presented and examined over a 3-day period at the Dijon forum held in October 2012.

The portraits of around forty villages were drawn, revealing the diversity of the region and the various challenges to be faced. The workshops produced “postcards from the future” portraying the future as it might be experienced in everyday life. Although the team demonstrated the value of these methods, the idea of setting up an “innovation function” in-house was abandoned. But even though no lab was created, thinking continues on “Villages of the future” via correspondence, underlining the value of the work performed by the team and questioning how it could be used to influence regional development policies.